My Friend Appears During Holy Mass
During the Holy Mass, after receiving Holy Communion, I kneeled in my pew, thanking our Lord for the grace to receive Him and asking Him to be merciful to me, a sinner, when, suddenly, A…, my friend, appeared before me. Although I had not seen her for many years, we stayed in touch. However, it had been a while since I heard from her.
She said, “Valentina, it is I, A…, here. Please don’t send me away; please help me.”
I said, “Oh, A…, what are you doing here? Where are you?”
She replied, “Valentina, I am no longer on earth. I had a fall and hurt myself, and then I found myself in the other world.”
“Valentina, today I received the biggest grace to talk to you. Our Lord Jesus is good—He sent me to talk to you because He knew we were friends and what I had done in my life. I had done so much wrong in my life, and they were no good in God’s Eyes.”
“I am not in Heaven; I am in Purgatory, in expiation, which is not too bad, but yet I think I am going to spend a long time there because of the wrong things I was doing on earth, meeting my partner which I should never have gotten involved with him, because it was not God’s Will and I have to suffer now very much.”
“That was the biggest mistake in my life. It is a big mistake when people get involved with other married people. I should have listened to you. We were best friends. Valentina, I love you so much—you are the only one who can help me.”
She was begging me for help. I said, “A…, I will help you.”
She said, “Valentina, Jesus loves you so much. You are number one with Him. Everybody loves you, and you help a lot of people. Please help me too. They showed me how poor you are, and I wish I could have helped you because I had a lot of opportunity to do so, but I didn’t, and now it is too late for me.”
Pleading, she said, “But please don’t abandon me—please think of me and help me.”
I was so shocked and touched to see my friend that I was crying as I listened to her since I did not know that she had died. She said, “Remember how many times we got together, and I should have listened to you and followed you, but I went on the wrong road, and I am very, very sorry now, but I can’t help myself. I have to pay my dues. Our Lord Jesus judges completely differently.”
Immediately, I said to our Lord, “Lord, I offer up my Holy Communion for A…, my friend.”